Improvement in camp-beds



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANcIs A. LEAvITT, oF PORTLAND, MAINE. l

IMPROVEMENT lN CAMP-BEDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,883., dated February l, 1876; application filed f July 1o, 1875.

To all vwhom, tt may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANcIs A. LEAvITT, of Portland, inthe county of Gumberlandand State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Beds; and .I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,.which will enable 'others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this'speciication.

Figui-e1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Y

Same letters show like parts.

The object of my invention'is to produce 'a cross-legged bed capableof being folded up into a small compass, and so constructed as to relieve the strain caused by the Weight of a person lying thereon on certain portions of the bed.

The parts of the device are as follows: a shows the canvas bottom; b c, the cross-legs. dis the rod extending from the point where two of the cross-legs meet to the joint or union of the other two. @and f show rods fittingin. to holes g in the top endsvof the cross-legs of the bed, and to which is attached the canvas or bottom of thebed. The rod d is held in po sition, and serves to hold the cross-legs of the bed, by means of the screw h, to which tits the thumb piece or nut t. j shows a curved supA port to the two rods e and f. It is bifurcated at its two ends, so as to pass and tit under the two rods, and then extends down to the screwrod d. At this point it rests upon a ring, or flange, or plate, k, to which is attached the branching support l.

By this arrangement the sack is kept eX-A panded at the center, and the weight of the person lying thereon at that part of it is borne up by the curved support j resting upon the ange k, with which are connected the sup- 4ports l, as before described. Thus an exceedingly light, strong, and compact bed is'provided, which is also capable of being folded up in the following manner: Remove the nuts t'. Then remove the cross-'legs b c from the ends of the rod d, and at the same time the two rods c and f from the holes g in .the top ends ofthe cross-legs. Then remove the curved support j from the two rods e and f. Slide the ring, flange, or plate k from the rod d. The parts being thus disconnected, the two pairs of cross-legs and the rod d are placed upon the canvas bottom a, the nutst' being first screwed onto the ends of the rod d. The support j being placed over these, the canvas a is then wrapped around them. These parts are then in a condition to beplaced in a bag, or wrappedin any convenient cover. Within this cover the support lis also placed. The two legs of the support l may be united at the top by a hinge arranged with a shoulder,'in order to permit the two arms to open sufticientlly when attached to the rod el, and at the same time to permit of their being brought together when the whole bed is packed for transportation, or forother similar purposes.

What I claim as my invention,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In abed of the kind described, the combination of the bottom a, the legs b c, the rod d, with its screws h and nuts t', the rods e f, the support j, and the support l, all arranged and constructed to operate in the settingv up and the folding up of said bed, substantially as herein described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.v

FRANCIS A. LEAVITT.

Witnessesi FRANK H. J oRDAN, WM. HENRY CLIFFORD. 

